PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1844. No. 43. 



January 8. 



SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



William Henry and John Neville, Esquires, were elected 

 Members of the Academy. 



The President read a letter from the Rev. James Ken- 

 nedy Bailie, D.D., presenting his " Fasciculus Inscriptionum 

 GrEBcarum." 



The special thanks of the Academy were given to Dr. 

 Bailie for his donation. 



Robert Ball, Esq., read a notice of the Means used by 

 the Ancients for attaching Handles to the Stone and Meta 

 Implements called Celts. 



Mr. Ball stated that many years since, the lamented Dean 

 Dawson proposed to him to put handles to the four most re- 

 markable forms of celts, with a view of discovering the probable 

 manner in which these instruments were used. He accord- 

 ingly did affix the handles (exhibited to the Academy), and 

 they appeared satisfactorily to answer the question : but re- 

 cent observation has convinced him that in two at least of 

 these hypothetical mountings he was incorrect, as proved, 

 he thought, by a stone celt mounted, which was a short time 

 since brought from a mine in Mexico, and an iron one — a 

 war weapon — brought a few weeks since from Little Fish 

 Bay in Africa. As he deemed the subject one of interest to 



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